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Description: General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers prior to D-Day. "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. 'Full victory-nothing less' to paratroopers in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe." Eisenhower is meeting with US Co. E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Strike) of the 101st Airborne Division, photo taken at Greenham Common Airfield in England about 8:30 p.m. on June 5, 1944. The General was talking about fly fishing with his men as he always did before a stressful operation(Eisenhower speaks with Hartsock). Memoir by Lt Wallace C. Strobel about this photo (seen wearing the number 23 around his neck): http://www.historyaddict.com/Ike502nd.html
Title: Eisenhower d-day
Credit:   This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a26521. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文(简体)‎ | 中文(繁體)‎ | +/− U.S. Army photograph. No. SC 194399. Source: aa_eisenhower_dday_2_e.jpg from www.americaslibrary.gov Source of higher resolution copy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-25600. This higher resolution version DOD Still Asset # HDSN9902699 http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Still/1999/DoD/HD-SN-99-02699.JPEG
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